Natural Selection 2

I remember when I got this computer roughly 8 months ago, with Windows 7. I was playing NS2 on high settings at 80-100 fps. Now I'm running at a measly 30-60 with the same settings. The only difference that has happened in my PC during that time period was a new hard drive, and an upgrade to Windows 8.1 I don't know what the hell happened, does anybody know what could have happened?Thanks.

-> turn off ambient occlusion for an extra 10-15fps (its not needed)-> make sure your vertical sync is tripple buffered so theres no fps cap-> apply your own 80fps cap so your video card doesn't work to hard (maxfps 80 in console)-> windows 8.1 has nothing to do with this-> trying using direct x 11 (seems to be better perfromance atleast for myself)-> type r_stats in console and see if your waiting for your gpu or a thread

could you provide more info such as how many players the server had etc? anything above 24 players is going to have those drops easily.

ok, the gtx 650 ti isn't quite strong enough to handle all max settings BUT if you turn off ambient occlusion (which is just glowly things pretty much) you should be good.

i'm currently running an overclocked build more powerful than yours, and it still isn't enough to handle that ambient occlusion. same issue as you only my figures were 15fps higher to start off with. (dropping down to 45fps) i gained anther 15fps by disabling ambient occlusion (and keeping everything else maxed out) which brings my drops up to 60fps.

to clarify the "80-100 fps". thoose have to be stats from within the ready room or during the first few minutes of the game. as the game progesses your fps will start to drop. i personally got 100-120fps in the ready room/game start. its really not something to think much of.